The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

1. Consider our dear Obligations to our blessed Saviour, who to free us from the sting and enslaving fear of Death, submitted to it with all its Terrors from God and wicked Men. He felt a Sadness to an Agony in his Soul, and suffered the equal extremities of Ignominy and Torment in his Body. The Favour of God was intercepted ⟨p. 81⟩from him, that it may shine upon us in that gloomy hour. And all his terrible Sufferings, though foreknown by his enlightened Mind, could not weaken his determined Will to undergo them for us: But when Peter regarded with a more tender eye his Life than our Salvation, he was repelled with indignation: Unparalleled Love! no less than Divine, transcending all the Instances of humane Affection. The highest kind and excess of Love amongst Men is to die for another, and the highest degree in that kind is to die to save an Enemy; and of this our Saviour is the singular Example: Love incomprehensible! it passes knowledge, and all understanding but his who expressed it. His Love was equal to the height of his Glory from whence he descended, and the depth of his Sufferings that he sustained in our stead. By washing us from our Sins in his Blood, ¹he makes us Kings, dignifies us with spiritual Sovereignty over not only defiling, but disturbing Passions. The freest and most confident Sinner in the World, that rebels against the Divine Laws without restraint, is a Slave not only under the ⟨p. 82⟩Chains of his imperious Lusts, but in that he is liable to the scourgings of Conscience when ever awakened, and to the servile fear of Death every day. But the sincere Christian has a clear and sweet Peace, a blessed Tranquillity, from the tormenting apprehensions and fears of Death, that are the just consequents of Guilt.

1. Consider our dear Obligations to our blessed Saviour, who to free us from the sting and enslaving fear of Death, submitted to it with all its Terrors from God and wicked Men. He felt a Sadness to an Agony in his Soul, and suffered the equal extremities of Ignominy and Torment in his Body. The Favour of God was intercepted ⟨p. 81⟩from him, that it may shine upon us in that gloomy hour. And all his terrible Sufferings, though foreknown by his enlightned Mind, could not weaken his determined Will to undergo them for us: But when Peter regarded with a more tender eye his Life than our Salvation, he was repell'd with indignation: Unparallel'd Love! no less than Divine, transcending all the Instances of humane Affection. The highest kind and excess of Love amongst Men is to die for another, and the highest degree in that kind is to die to save an Enemy; and of this our Saviour is the singular Example: Love incomprehensible! it passes knowledg, and all understanding but his who express'd it. His Love was equal to the heighth of his Glory from whence he descended, and the depth of his Sufferings that he sustained in our stead. By washing us from our Sins in his Blood,